Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McCall Smith

Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.

Jim Bailey

Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.

Floyd Patterson

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

Jerry Lawler

What the Hell. In 1988, I was the AWA heavyweight champion and I never came to Milwaukee.

Gordon Brown

The next election will be a flyweight versus a heavyweight. However much the right hon. Gentleman (David Cameron) may dance around the ring beforehand, at some point, he will come within the reach of a big clunking fist.

Muhammad Ali

Do you know why I’m the fastest heavyweight in the world? I’m the only heavyweight that trains underwater!

Larry Holmes

Joe Louis was a good Heavyweight, good boxer but he was kind of in the same boat as Marciano, weighing about 190 to 200 lbs.

Lennox Lewis

I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

Lennox Lewis

I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.

Cheryl Strayed

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

Charlton Heston

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Joyce Carol Oates

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

DeMario Minter

It was very heartbreaking to say that you lost your last game, but I think for the seniors we accomplished a lot. I know what we accomplished is not going to erase this loss, but we can say we did some good things in our careers.

Esteban Loaiza

I've been doing my job. I'm just trying to erase my record.

Tim O'Brien

The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.

Ben Okri

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

Carnie Wilson

I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.

Brian Eno

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

Chris Carter

are out of step with modern conservation approaches.

Neil Strauss

The modern player is totally under the radar.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Sally Deering

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Karen Tandy

E-traffickers are just a modern way of saying drug dealers,

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Albert Einstein

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

E. F. Schumacher

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

D. H. Lawrence

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.